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' <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now therefore, command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon, and my servants shall be with your servants. And I will give you hire for your servants according to all that you shall say, for you know that not a man among us can cut timber like the Sidonians."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And it came to pass when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly and said, "Blessed <i>be</i> the LORD this day who has given David a wise son over this great people." <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Hiram sent to Solomon saying, "I have heard that for which you sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning <i>the</i> timber of cedar and concerning <i>the</i> timber of fir. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>My servants shall bring <i>them</i> down from Lebanon to the sea. And I will bring them by sea in floats to the place that you shall name. And I will cause them to be left there, and you shall receive <i>them</i>. And you shall fulfill my desire in giving food for my household." <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees, all his desire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food <i>for</i> his household and twenty measures of pure oil. So Solomon gave to Hiram year by year. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom as He promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon. And the two of them made a treaty together.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel. And the labor force <i>was</i> thirty thousand men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month, by courses. They were a month in Lebanon, and two months at home. <i>And</i> Adoniram was over the labor force. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens and eighty thousand woodcutters in the mountains, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Besides the chief of Solomon's overseers who <i>were</i> over the work, thirty-three hundred, who ruled over the people that labored in the work. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, cut stones, to lay the foundation of the house. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites cut out and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="https://afaithfulversion.org/">A Faithful Version</a><br><br>Copyright © 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011<br>York Publishing Company<br>Post Office Box 1038<br>Hollister, California 95024-1038<br><br>All rights reserved.<br>All Scripture may be freely quoted except for brief excerpts for review purposes, no part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means--electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or information storage and retrieval systems, or use of hermeneutical conclusions of copyright owner.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_kings/4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Kings 4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Kings 4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_kings/6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Kings 6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Kings 6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>